Not many pictures from this day's efforts. This first pic is the framing for a storage room in the barn loft. It takes up a space roughly 12'x12' in the center of the barn, leaving the two ends free. The back will be furniture and "non-insulated" storage, the room will soon be insulated and fitted with wall board, etc. so it's not freezable next winter, and the front will be a sort of office/studio space.
While my male builder-type friends were busy in the barn, some others were completing the demolition of the second floor bathroom. Once I get the yard trailer street legal, I've got a LOT of stuff to take to the dump.
My younger friends kept busy hauling materials and trimming hedges. There are a LOT of hedges to trim here and if you don't stay ahead of them you can spend days raking up the clippings. The cutting is pretty easy with the trimmer, but the raking and hauling takes forever. They did yeoman's work, that's for sure.
I didn't get fancy and join these two shots together, but you get the idea.
In case you're wondering about my "ground cover," that's old carpeting that I put down so I wouldn't have to mow the walkway out to the barn. Most of it came out of my church's sanctuary when we remodelled last year.
This last week's efforts have been aimed at getting the framing finished up. (Still need ceiling rafters) Next week I can begin wiring and insulating the room and get wall board put up. Then shelving goes in and our "old house" can disgorge it's store of boxes, and we can get moved over here for good! Woo hoo!
MANY thanks to my many friends who have helped on this project. Couldn't have done it without you.
Stay tuned, we're getting closer!
D.
